"You know," he said at last, contemplating his meal, "this is really terrible stuff."

The Americans think he's pulled off some terrible stuff over the last few years.

"I don't know if it helped, but it was terrible stuff," he said.

"Why, this is terrible stuff," he tells the chap who just sold it to him.

"There was terrible stuff going on in Baghdad," he said, "and one did not feel right making a full presentation."

Not the usual terrible stuff; I bring it in myself, you know.

A woman's dress had been caught in the terrible stuff.

"Unfortunately, I've seen a lot of terrible stuff, but this scale?"

And if, sometimes, he produced some terrible stuff, we never lost the feeling that he would come back again on top form.

And she won't know about any of this terrible stuff I do to get it for her.